I Think We Have A Moral Obligation

I Am Confident That The British People Will Not Be Intimidated By Terrorism.

Incivility Is A Symptom, Not The Disease. We've Always Had Partisan Conflict In Congress, And We Always Will. Yet When I Worked For A Year (1970-71) On The Staff Of Sen. Ed Muskie Of Maine, This Was A Different Place, More Collegial, More Sensitive To Data, More Concerned About All Of The American People. I Think Because The For-profit Media Prizes Conflict Above Cooperation And Sound Bites Above Analysis, Politicians Have Learned To Adapt To Those Tendencies. Consequently, Our Public Debates Are Dumbed Down As Our Problems Grow More Complex.

Health Care Costs Blunt The Competitive Edge Of American Entrepreneurs, From The Auto Industry To Internet Start-ups.

If The Parties Get Too Close Together They Lose Their Identities, If They Get Too Far Apart You're Not Going To Get A Whole Lot Done Because You Almost Always Need To Have Some Folks On The Other Side Of The Aisle To Accomplish Anything.

The Mercury Rule Writers Also Ignored Mercury's Special Qualities